Harry Rich lands £420-a-day job as government’s lobbying tsar

Harry Rich, the former RIBA chief executive, is to be the government’s next lobbying tsar.

Rich’s appointment as the new registrar of consultant lobbyists, a job he described as a “challenge and an important opportunity”, was confirmed yesterday. He begins at the end of this week.

The part-time job, created by the Lobbying Act in 2014, comes with a salary of £420 a day.

The Cabinet Office estimated the role would take up 30 to 40 days a year but the departing registrar, Alison White, reported that she worked 65.5 days in 2016/17, which would equate to £27,510 for less than 1.5 days a week.

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